When Dan Glickman, Clinton’s agriculture secretary, was tapped during the 1997 State of the Union, his hometown of Wichita, Kansas, was too far away, so he chose New York, where his daughter lived.

"My wife and my friends were impressed the fire trucks were there." Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman wrote an essay in 2017 in Politico about his own experience after being chosen.

“Movies were part of the DNA of my family,” Glickman remembers. “Culture was all around us.” His father, Dan Glickman, was a congressman before becoming the secretary of agriculture and ...

Dan Glickman, Bill Clinton’s agriculture secretary, served as designated survivor in 1997 at his daughter's New York City apartment alongside Secret Service members. Bill Richardson, Clinton's ...

In Politico Magazine in 2017, Dan Glickman, former United States Secretary of Agriculture under Bill Clinton, wrote about his experience as designated survivor, and spending the State of the Union ...